680 Report on Shoa [No. 140. 



Pandora has indeed been doubly locked after allowing all the scourges 

 of mankind to escape with their full muster of attendants, and all the 

 horrors of savage warfare, of merciless slavery, and of debasing despotism 

 ride triumphant over the land. 



177. Cowards, fanatics and liars ; cruel, superstitious and profligate ; 

 proud of their deformities, and constant only in their inconstancy, they 

 are bullies and beggars of the most transcendant character, whilst their 

 dirty unclean habits render them a perfect nuisance to all with whom 

 they come in contact ; glorying in the most savage, revolting and barba- 

 rous practices, which are hardly credible, except to eye-witnesses, their life 

 is at complete variance with all the ordinary customs of other people. 

 Brutalizing, like wild beasts on raw bloody flesh, when others have 

 adopted the spit and the kitchen fire ; wearing no protection on the 

 head and their feet, when all others having long since proclaimed 

 the necessity of the covering ; exposing their naked persons as a sign 

 of respect, contrary to every received law of shame, and existing in all 

 the filth of unwashed persons and dark unswept hovels, they have 

 indeed but little cause for the inordinate self-pride in which they 

 hyperbolically style their petty location the finest of countries, and its 

 unclean inhabitants, the only true Christians in the world. 



History of the Abyssinian Church. — English Missions. 



The departure of the Jesuit Patriarch was followed by a fierce perse- 

 cution of all who were in any degree tainted by the abhorred faith of 

 the Romans, and the last legacy of the western priest proved a fatal 

 gift to the possessor. Suspected individuals wherever found were im- 

 mediately put to death, and in accordance with the earnest entreaties 

 of the population, and with the long established usage of Ethiopia, a 

 new Abuna was appointed from Egypt, to preside over the ancient reli- 

 gion, now firmly re-established throughout the land. 



But the failure of the ambitious designs of the Church of Rome had 

 in Europe been entirely ascribed to the arrogance and cruelty of the 

 emissaries employed, which had created so deep and lasting a hatred 

 among the mass of the inhabitants ; and the milder order of French 



